Sharlot M Hall a Rising Western Poet
Sharlot M Hall, a new western writer, gains notice for verses on the desert and southwest life. She was the first white child born in Lincoln county Kansas and grew up amid peril from Indians and on a Santa Fe trail ranch near Prescott Arizona. Her upbringing imbued her with authentic cowboy knowledge reflected in her poetry.
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Sharlot M. Hall
Desort
Southwest
Miss Hall
Lincoln County
Kan
Arizona
Prescott
The Gentle Art of Scolding in Home Life
A New York Journal meditation on new discipline. The article urges women in authority to scold calmly and kindly, using scolding to correct servants and children without nagging. It cautions against harsh denunciation and argues that gentle, hopeful rebukes save marriages and guide wrongdoers toward better paths.
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New York Journal
Housekeeping Experiment Shows Cooperative Budget Plan
A housekeeper tested a co op plan with her cook by sharing any weekly surplus or shortfall equally. The family of five budgeted two dollars per day, fourteen weekly, and any savings or losses were split, boosting table quality and efficiency. The experiment proved satisfactory, stirred by the intelligent collaborator, and could work in other homes with less favorable conditions.
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New York Post
Managing a Husband Tire Esherialation
A brief note extols the positive feeling of tire management in a household. It frames effort as a source of satisfaction and balance for both partners, highlighting practical tasks and mutual support within daily life. The piece emphasizes calm, cooperative routines.
How to Manage a Husband After a Day’s Worries
Lilian Bell advises in Harper’s Bazaar on taming a tired husband with tact and patience. She urges reading his mood first, feeding him before news, and avoiding forced cheer. She notes each husband is unique and calls for careful subject study and considerate handling.
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Lilian Bell
Harper’s Bazar
Cultivate a Moral Purpose for Women and Men
The Atlantic essay argues women gain safety and liberty through a moral purpose guiding actions for the race's permanent good. It contrasts following heart with duty, emphasizing self knowledge and self control as paths to sovereign power. It asserts the same standard applies to men and women.
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William M. Salter
Work Frees Women Yet Dulls Their Charm Says Winslow
A quote from Helen M. Winslow in Woman's Home Companion argues that work and business life erode feminine softness. It suggests women gain mental steadiness but lose bloom and innocence, cautioning married and self supporting women to avoid the urge to join the workforce.
Remedies For Wrinkles And Facial Repose
Advice from the Ladies' Home Journal on preventing wrinkles through facial repose and overall nourishment. It recommends keeping the body well nourished to maintain a plump face, maintaining teeth to prevent cheek sag, and using facial massage as exercise with upward and outward strokes to lift and tone facial muscles.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
High backed benches as fashionable room feature
Benches replace mantels as a stylish wall focal point. A high backed bench with a shelf on brackets above serves as a bric a brac display, while a rug and down cushions complete the look, often saving the room’s overall effect.
The Wash Boiler Care Tip
Many people complain that the boiler rusts and iron molds the clothes. This may be entirely prevented by rubbing the boiler well with any good kitchen soap immediately after employing it while it is warm.
Cooking tip using a wire egg beater and light batter guidance
A homemaking note praises using a wire egg beater to mix flour with water or milk. It advises lifting flour and pouring liquid in a thin stream while beating steadily for lighter batter. The text also cites Thackeray noting women have grown taller in fifty years, referencing Laura Pendennis at five feet four.
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Thackeray
Laura Pendennis
Tender or tough test for poultry skin
The skin's response to a pinch determines texture. If it sticks to the flesh the meat is tough. if it leaves the flesh the poultry is tender.
Alum Cemented Iron and Glass Repair Note
Alum dissolved in an iron pot over the fire makes a good cement for repairing iron and glass. The simple method uses heat to mix the compound into a usable bonding material.
Hartshorn Repair Tip Aims to Save Polished Furniture
A note advises using Hartshorn to remove white marks from furniture and avoid repolishing, suggesting a simple home remedy to restore finish without extensive refinishing.
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Hartshorn
Dressing Hints for Debutantes and Couturier Tips
Practical guidance on debutante attire stressing simplicity over over dressing. Advice covers harm on color harmony, accessories to transform plain dresses, and safe cleaning of silk with naphtha. Also outlines methods to tint white lace to cream or ecru using coffee and saffron.
Skin care tips for applying powder safely
A skin expert recommends applying powder with absorbent cotton, brushing powder over the face, then rubbing in with the hands and wiping with soft cheesecloth. Do not leave powder on overnight. wash off and massage with cold cream. Seek pure vegetable powders or choose cornstarch or rice flour as safer alternatives.
Morals of the Child in Early Home Guidance
The article argues that a child’s moral development starts early with home guidance. It warns neglect by parents, noting reliance on servants or teachers harms both child and parents, and cites lack of energy and forethought as common causes.
Effect of Tight Clothing On Complexion
Tight stays snug sleeves and pinching shoes cause red hands and strained expressions. Collars may choke and a hairpin can sour a face. Beauty linked to vanity fades with discomfort. simple diet and plain foods aid a clear complexion.
Motherhood as the noblest deal of woman
A reflective piece by Carolina Gibbons extols motherhood as a core female virtue. It argues a girl may be a mother in heart before she can walk or talk, shaping her role to husband, children, and entire family with lasting influence.
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Carolina
Gibbons
Mutton Suet as Soothing Grease Weapon
The article advises saving suet from mutton cuts and purchasing extra suet if unused. Melted and strained into cups, it cools into a snow white ball of soft grease. Used on sore, chapped hands or lips, it supposedly relieves soreness and pain better than anything known.
Comfortable Cushions for Cosy Upholstery
Spread a thick sheet of wadding under the outside cover when making cushions. Tack at corners and center of sides to hold it flat. White wadding suits light covers and black for dark fabrics, yielding a cosier feel and neater appearance.
Bedstead Drapery Design Popularizes Light Sleepers
A new drapery system for beds abandons heavy four poster styles in favor of light, air friendly curtains. A five inch wooden disk with a centered hole anchors a broom-handle piece on the wall, supporting looped fabric that drapes over and back to the wall. The setup fits over a metal bedstead and uses simple materials for easy assembly.
How to Make a Plain Omelet Without Separating Eggs
The guide advises using four eggs max per omelet, or make two or three omelets. Beat thoroughly with milk and salt, add butter on a knife, oil pan, keep motioning the pan, cook evenly, loosen, cover briefly, lift slightly, slide knife under, fold, and serve immediately.
Women of Today and the Rise of Modern Powers
The article argues that contemporary women are better educated and superior in wife, mother, and community roles. It asserts greater respect from men, expanding influence, and improved happiness under new freedoms. It predicts harmony and accelerated civilization as women embrace science philosophy and government.
Veil Fashion Critique Sparks Lip Pout Habit
A speaker laments women who wear veils tightly and purse their lips to avoid crease pressure. She notes frequent street observations of pouting as a habit that distorts facial expression and caricatures faces.
Little Things and Life's Small Frustrations
The piece notes how small daily annoyances test patience from stuck bureau drawers to rattling windows. It offers simple remedies such as hard soap, stove blacking, a soft pencil, or folded newspaper to quiet noise and restore comfort.
A Useful Cement From Gin and Gelatin
A recipe explains making a strong clear cement by dissolving gelatin in gin to a thick gum, washing the edges of the pieces, applying the cement, and allowing it to dry. The method emphasizes a clean bond with no residue.
Laundry Lint Tips From Old Newspaper
Household hints on washing woolen goods and delicate fabrics. Do not use brown soap on wool, salt the bottom of a sticky iron, iron calicoes on the wrong side, stiffen milk wrung cotton, wash handkerchiefs with castile soap and ammonia, set colors in salt water, old kid gloves avoid callouses, wax in starch prevents sticking, add walnut-sized piece of wax to boiling starch.
Children’s Appetites and Simple Health Rules
Promote outdoor exercise and simple, digestible foods for children. Avoid rich foods and between meal snacking to protect appetite and health. If appetite drops, check for worry, sleep, and school stress. limit sensational reading and consider a short holiday if needed.
Venetian Lace Work and Technique
Venetian point lace is worked on the pattern's right side unlike royal battens and other laces. It progresses from left to right as a drawing, with the pattern drawn on muslin and basted to a heavier ground. Heavy linen thread and cord outline the design, forming a raised foundation for fine stitches sewn closely to create a solid structure.
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Royal Battenberg
The Case for Daily Outdoor Walks and Breathing
The author argues household chores do not replace exercise and that true fitness requires mental rest. A twenty minute open air walk at a brisk pace, with deep breathing, is essential daily.
Dining Room Decoration with a Merry Feast Inscription
A dining room overmantle features burnt and illuminated work with a quaint inscription reading Cheer and great welcome take a merry feast. A border of pomegranate blossoms frames a Cupid beside a fagot ore with a steaming pot. The vapor trails across the panel in sweeping lines.
Bathing as daily ritual and luxury in daily life
The text argues bathing, akin to eating and sleeping, should be regular and viewed as both pleasure and luxury. It suggests a bath is essential for those who find it restful and stimulating, while those who see it as a chore miss the full benefits of tub time.
Clean Mackintoshes At Home With Simple Steps
When dirty, macintoshes clean at home by spreading flat on a table and scrubbing with warm water and yellow soap dissolved with carbonate of ammonia. Rinse in cold water and hang to dry. Do not place near the fire.
Silk strength surpasses flax in vegetable fiber comparison
The article notes silk as the strongest fiber among both plant and animal threads, stating it is three times as strong as a flaxen thread of equal diameter.
Antiseptic Soap Mixture Described for Healing
A simple antiseptic soap formula is given using twelve parts copper sulfate to eighty eight parts soap. The compound is said to heal sores and scratches readily without irritation.
War's Crops and a German Proverb
A German proverb asserts that a great war leaves a country with three armies one of invaders one of mourners and one of idle persons ready to commit crime reflecting on social consequences of conflict.
Ginseng Tea Long Used By Chinese As Medicine And Drink
The article notes ginseng tea has ancient Chinese origins as both medicine and beverage long before the Christian era.
A Boy’s Locker Built From Boxes and Boards
A simple plan for a boy’s locker uses uniform boxes and a board framework. Portable drawers form a storage wall with a hinged string board door. Brackets and hardware store fittings finish the wall rack for organizing gear and sporting items.
Warning by Pantry Raider From The Chicago Record
A humorous anecdote describes a boy who overfeeds himself and cannot distinguish throat from stomach. It portrays his constant eating, dreaming of food, and a panicked pantry raid ending in a self deprecating complaint about a sore throat or stomach ache as a moral warning.
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Chicago
Strange Plant Feats Amazed Early Readers
A nature student measured a squash lifting 60 pounds at day twenty and 5,000 pounds by day nineteen. Seeds of globe turnips and cabbage seeds showed dramatic growth under ideal conditions, with astonishing rapid increases in weight and bulk observed.
Lost Smile Found in Nursery Tale of Dorothy and Treasure
A playful nursery verse describes a missing smile with a dimpled mouth and hazel eyes. Dorothy discovers the treasure of the smiling scene in the nursery and is urged to return it to the mother and brother for a rich reward.
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Dorothy
Mary L. C. Robinson
Panion
Trick With Glass of Water Wager
A description of a parlor trick where a glass of water is filled and balanced on a table with a card placed over it. The glass is inverted with the card removed yet the water remains inside, making it seem impossible to move the glass without spilling.
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